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“Jamie was an incel because he was a weak spoiled terminally online bullied outcast. If he were just better at sports or if sluts wanted to go out with him, he wouldn’t have been an incel.” - @SlayerSlayer
While the show obviously wasn’t intended for incels — its target audience was the parents of teenage boys and politicians — many have watched it and have been avidly discussing its merits and demerits.
On one incel forum I found multiple discussion threads on the show. @SlayerSlayer noted that although Adolescence was “blatant anti-incel propaganda”, it was nevertheless “psychologically accurate” in its portrayal of the killer, Jamie. “I liked how the kid had extreme body dysmorphia, and constantly fluctuated between being a troll, being a simp, feeling worthless, and easily irritated in his desperation for power”, he explained. He particularly liked the third episode in which Jamie is interviewed by a female forensic psychologist played by Erin Doherty. “The actress was amazing and so was the incel killer,” @SlayerSlayer continued, praising Doherty for her “skilled” portrayal of “a manipulative little whore” who entraps Jamie into confessing. As for Jamie, he was like “OJ [Simpson] in that he constantly denied he killed that bitch, despite getting caught red handed on CCTV”. “I liked how it had simple answers,” @SlayerSlayer concluded, which he took to be that Jamie was an incel because he was bullied and because “sluts” had rejected him. If Adolescence was indeed “anti-incel propaganda”, as @SlayerSlayer put it, it clearly had no effect in penetrating his breastplate of incel righteousness and self-pity.

Many more, though, dismissed the show as unrealistic, “retarded”, fear-mongering and superficial. A recurring criticism centred on the casting of Jamie, played by the 15-year-old Owen Cooper. The broad consensus was that he was too good looking to convince as an incel. In a vote on “Would you let Jamie from Adolescence join the forum?”, over 80% said no, reasoning, as @Fevet put it, “He’ll grow into a Chad.”

Adamcel*, for example, confided that “I couldn’t see the perpetrator, a 13-year-old boy, as the villain in this, not even logically”, elaborating that Jamie’s violence was a morally intelligible, even excusable, reaction to being bullied.
Some incels were particularly scathing about how the show failed, in their view, to capture the complexities of the manosphere, ridiculing the scene in which one of the detectives working on the case speculates about the kind of mindset-material that might have radicalised Jamie. “It’s the involuntary celibate stuff,” @echidnacel says, adding: “It’s the Andrew Tate shite.” This, according to Dariuscel*, was to elide the “redpill”, which holds that women are superficial and only attracted to Chads, with the “blackpill”, which holds that incels, no matter what they do or how hard they try, will never find sexual intimacy or happiness with a woman. Tate, who is not only sexually successful with women but also potently shames other men who lack his confidence and “loverboy” skillset, is thus especially reviled among incels. “Andrew Tate,” Dariuscel clarified, “is a sex haver mogger masculinity coper that shouldn’t be associated with incels at all.” Tate, for his part, has distanced himself from incels, stating, via a spokesperson, that it is “unjust” for him to be made a “the scapegoat for complex problems like radicalization and violence”.

Another and perhaps more unsettling irony is that Adolescence, in trying to expose the dangers of online misogyny, has massively amplified the most extreme exponents of it, catapulting incels to the centre of a global conversation about boyhood, masculinity and violence. In doing so, it has brought the most fringe of subcultures to the attention of countless numbers of young boys who might previously not have heard it or had viewed it with indifference. For some incels, all this sudden fervent attention is unnerving, while for the more ideologically strident among them, it is to be welcomed. As @Below Human triumphantly put it, “Good, that means inceldom is spreading. They can’t ignore it anymore.”


@Grodd @Hoppipolla Your threads got featured on the news
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@SlayerSlayer @Below Human @Fevet @echidnacel
 
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even without the evil inkwell factor it just seems like a slop show
didnt watch/10
 
When will they have me on the news those whores must accept erenyeagerdom
 
The most fascinating thing about this article is not just 1. the fact that this fella got paid to lurk on a basketweaving forum filled with Indians and 2. users being mentioned, is instead the fact that he's surprisingly correct about Adolescence.
[Incels] are [on forums] because they find it cathartic to vent about their frustrations, because they want to be understood and because they can express outrageous thoughts and feelings that they would be unable to express anywhere else. And because they clearly take great pleasure in defiantly transgressing the civilised norms of a society that they feel has rejected them and because sacralising misogynistic killers like Elliot Roger is meant to enrage the normies.


Had the makers of Adolescence done their own bit of incel-trawling before writing the show they might have come up with a story that better captured the appeal of an oppositional subculture for boys and men who are unable to form sexual relationships with women and who have come to see their lives as hopeless. Instead, they contrived to make a clumsy and reductive drama that has served to fan the flames of a moral panic that shows no signs of abating.
 
Trucel trait: your threads never get featured in articles or in videos or on IT :feelsbadman:
 
When will they have me on the news those whores must accept erenyeagerdom
I'm surprised I haven't made it on any new articles pertaining to our reaction to the show. The threads I posted with the topic on Adolescence got lots of replies.
 
I'm surprised I haven't made it on any new articles pertaining to our reaction to the show. The threads I posted with the topic on Adolescence got lots of replies.
Like woman they always go for the wrong choice
 
Jfl, adolescence is complete dog shit
 
Imagine lurking .is and calling yourself a journalist
 
Imagine lurking .is and calling yourself a journalist
jfl, makes me want to tell these cunts to just fuck off.

in all fairness though at least he understands that adolescence is moralfaggot propaganda especially that fucking emoji shit because that's the pinacle of boomer level retardation.
 
Shows how stupid people are, that they're falling for propaganda like that show.
 













@Grodd @Hoppipolla Your threads got featured on the news
pepe-the-frog-pepe.gif


@SlayerSlayer @Below Human @Fevet @echidnacel
@Fevet feds are watching u
 

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